Politics & Political Theory

J. Mark Ramseyer, The Puzzling (In)Dependence of Courts: A Comparative Approach, 23 J. Legal Stud. 721 (1994).

J. Mark Ramseyer, The Japanese Judiciary, in The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics (Robert Pekkanen & Saadia Pekkanen, eds., 2020).

Mark Ramseyer & Frances M. Rosenbluth, Party Organization, in Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan 205 (Robert Pekkanen ed., 2018).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Managed Courts Under Unstable Political Environments: Recruitments and Resignations in the 1990s Japanese Judiciary (Harv. L. Sch. L.

Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, Judicial Independence in Civil Law Regimes: Econometrics from Japan, 13 J.L. Econ. & Org. 259 (1997).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Japan’s Political Marketplace (Harvard Univ. Press 1993).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Skewed Incentives: Paying for Politics as a Japanese Judge, 83 Judicature 190 (2000).

Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, Why Are Japanese Judges So Conservative in Politically Charged Cases?, 95 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 331 (2001).

J. Mark Ramseyer, A Japanese Version of Change, Japan Q. Apr.-June 1999, at 102 (reviewing Is Japan Really Changing Its Ways? Regulatory Reform and the…

Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, When are Judges and Bureaucrats Left Independent? Theory and History from Imperial Japan, Postwar Japan, and the United…

Yoshiro Miwa & J. Mark Ramseyer, Capitalist Politicians, Socialist Bureaucrats? Legends of Government Planning from Japan, 48 Antitrust Bull. 595 (2003).

Alma Cohen & Crystal S. Yang, Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions, 11 Am. Econ. J.: Econ. Pol’y 160 (2019).

Mark Tushnet, Judicial Time: A Research Note, SSRN (Sept. 5, 2025).

Mark Tushnet, Amendment theory and constituent power, in Comparative Constitutional Theory (Gary Jacobsohn & Miguel Schor eds., 2025).

Cass R. Sunstein, The Enduring Relevance of Alger Hiss vs. Whittaker Chambers, SSRN (Jan. 6, 2026).

Sharon Block & Benjamin Sachs, Clean Slate for Worker Power: Building a Just Economy and Democracy (Lab. & Worklife Program, Harv. L. Sch., Jan. 23,…

Kate Andrias & Benjamin Sachs, Constructing Countervailing Power: Law and Organizing in an Era of Political Inequality, 130 Yale L.J. 546 (2021).

Benjamin Sachs, Supreme Court Ruling Hampers Unions’ Political Speech, Justice Watch (June 22, 2012).